Henry Nutcombe Oxenham
Henry Nutcombe Oxenham | |
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| Born | Henry Nutcombe Oxnam 15 November 1829 Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK |
| Died | 23 March 1888 (aged 58) Kensington, London, England, UK |
| Occupation(s) | Theologian, ecclesiologist, author, translator |
Henry Nutcombe Oxenham (15 November 1829 – 23 March 1888) was an English
ecclesiologist, theologian, author and translator. Originally ordained in the Church of England, he later converted to the Roman Catholic faith and was received into that Church
.
Biography
He was born at
St Edmund's College, Ware. Being unable, however, to surrender his belief in the validity of Anglican orders,[clarification needed] he proceeded no further than minor orders in the Roman Church.[1]
In 1863 he made a prolonged visit to Germany, where he studied the language and literature, and formed a close friendship with
Döllinger, whose First Age of the Christian Church he translated in 1866. Oxenham was a regular contributor to the Saturday Review. A selection of his essays was published in Short Studies in Ecclesiastical History and Biography (1884), and Short Studies, Ethical and Religious (1885). In 1876, he translated the second volume of Bishop Hefele's History of the Councils of the Church, and published several pamphlets on the reunion of Christendom. His Catholic Doctrine of the Atonement (1865) and Catholic Eschatology and Universalism (1876) are standard works.[1][2]
Death
He died on 23 March 1888 at Kensington, London, of undisclosed causes, aged 58. He never married.
Notes
 | This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (January 2013) |
References
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Oxenham's Catholic Eschatology is cited as an authority in Joseph Wilhelm and Thomas B. Scannell, A Manual of Catholic Theology: Based on Scheeben’s "Dogmatik," Third Edition, Revised. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1908), II., p. 534.
Sources
- Rigg, James McMullen (1895). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Oxenham, Henry Nutcombe". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 401.
